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Techniques for voice, structure, scene, character, and point of view.
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Guide · Writing & Craft
Balancing the pull of intimacy with the engine of comedic exposure
A practical craft guide for authors on structuring a romantic comedy, sharpening prose humour, designing organic obstacles, and navigating the registers of comedic intimacy.
Article · Writing Craft
What might a more capable thinker notice that we overlook?
A thought exercise exploring how ideas about qualitative superintelligence might sharpen the questions we ask when developing an essay.
Guide · Writing Craft Advisory
What target-first composition can still teach writers
A source-audited craft essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s unity of effect, the limits of the machine metaphor, and a practical method for designing stories around a deliberate reader experience.
Guide · Writing Craft
A practical method for criticism grounded in evidence and judgement
A source-audited guide to evaluating novels, screenplays, poetry, nonfiction, and other written work through purpose, form, evidence, effect, and context.
Guide · Writing Craft Advisory
Separating voice from vision in narrative design
A source-audited craft guide to voice, focalization, narrative information, perspective shifts, and practical point-of-view revision.
Guide · Writing Craft Advisory
How narrators misreport, misread, misjudge, and leave crucial things unsaid
A source-audited craft guide to unreliable narration, its main theoretical distinctions, textual signals, ethical risks, and use in fiction and film.